"I seen them throw the dog out the window, so I pull over in the median and I just ran over there and the flames starting going," Akins said.

Akins said he heard a trapped woman screaming outside the window.

"I ran back and grabbed a hammer, tried to bust the front windshield and it finally popped. The flames got stronger and then she finally just fell out the window, and we just grabbed her and dragged her to the grass," he said.

Theresa Harazin, 47, of Papillion was flown by a LifeNet helicopter to the the Nebraska Medical Center with life-threatening burns covering her entire body.